Vocab
What is blitzkrieg?
Fast moving forces that use tanks and planes
This event pulled the US into WWII?
Pearl Harbor
Why was the Berlin Wall Built?
To stop the “brain drain” or the mass amount of people that were leaving East Berlin to go to West Berlin.
What is the line of latitude that splits North and South Korea?
Korea- 38th parallel
What happened at the Casablanca Conference?
The allies will except nothing less then unconditional surrender
What is Appeasement?
policy of giving into another country in hope of keeping peace
What was the Battle of Britain?
Hilter's attempt to bomb London into submission for a surrender
What is one of the most significant differences between the United Nations and the League of Nations?
League of Nations does not have any troops
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and it's satellite nations
What happened at the Teheran Conference?
The allies agreed to open up a second front in Europe - setting up D-Day
1) Dominate political party or dictator
2) Government runs business
3) Newspapers/media are gov controlled
This battle was Hitler's first defeat?
Stalingrad
What is Kristallnacht?
1) Night of shattered glass
2) Jewish shops were destroyed, promoted by the government
Mao's push for larger collective farming
What happened at the Yalta Conference?
Established the UN with the big five getting veto power and Stalin agreed to hold free elections in Eastern Europe.
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Excludes Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriage between Jews and Germans
What were the causes of WWII?
Miltitarism
Nationalism
Totalitarianism
Who was Alexander Dubcek?
First secretary of the Communist Party: Introduced many reforms, including freedom of speech, press, and freedom to travel abroad. Promised a gradual change to democracy or a style similar in Czechoslovakia
This event was led by students in China to protest for more democratic freedom within their country that ultimately turned violent
Tiananmen Square
What outcome took place at Potsdam?
Stalin agreed to have elections in his satellite nations
Define: Isolationism
policy that initially kept US from becoming involved with Germany
How did Japan control its newly found territories? How did they treat their new subjects?
Poorly because they were used for the war machine.
What were some policies that characterized the Soviet leadership of Leonid Brezhnev?
1) Old customs
2) Old ideas
3) Old culture
4) Old habits
What happened at the Munich Conference?
League of Nations appeases Hitler